Avid Won’t Transcode Atomos Samurai Footage

[Shane Ross]

What’s the error message?

Shane
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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Attached is a screen grab of the error message;

Thanks!

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[Shane Ross]

You might have to skip AMA on this and just do a basic import:

https://community.avid.com/forums/p/86225/542420.aspx

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[Michael Phillips]

Are you transcoding to DNxHD, or do you want to keep it as ProRes and just rewrap as MXF? How long are the clips? What’s the error message?

Try:

Subclipping in half before the transcode and see if you get the same error message

Fast import will keep it as ProRes – does that give a message?

Michael

[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Unfortunately I came to the project late and it’s actually already been onlined using SxS media that was shot simultaneously but I’m trying to back track to see what the problem could have been so that I can hopefully prevent it from happening again. The importing instead of AMA is an interesting suggestion. I will see if we can go back to the Samurai masters and run a test. The shots are very short for the most part so I don’t think length of them would be the problem.

Thanks!

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[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Also yes, we were transcoding to DNx36

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[Chris Harlan]

Maybe a bug in your metadata?

I’ve actually run into a problem similar to this a couple of times while rewrapping ProResHQ !080@50i to MXF. I’m curious–when you bring in the AMA file does it seem like it might be a couple of frames out of sync even though TC matches across the channels? The files would load and play fine in other NLEs, btw.

What I ended up deciding is that there was some sort of metadata mismatch that was causing the hang, probably from some odd setting at the post house where the files were generated.

I solved my problem by running my ProRes files through Compressor, straight across, keeping all settings the same and just re-compressing. Worked beautifully. Didn’t like the added time, but it ironed out the file.

[Chris Harlan]

I’m curious. Did you ever get to the bottom of this?